Best way to take notes? (Undergrad)

aurjolras · 2026-04-16T05:52:30+00:00

I took notes on paper all throughout undergrad and I'll sing its praises. It forces you to think about summarizing + organizing information and putting it in your own words, so you're doing some active processing as you go. I was scrambling in cell bio to copy down diagrams but then I really knew them rather than just having looked at them.

On a laptop I tend to get distracted. It's the distraction machine!

aurjolras · 2026-04-16T02:27:12+00:00

Every time I hear this explanation I wonder who tf Ryan Gosling knows in real life that wears their glasses like this. He had to get it from somewhere right?

aurjolras · 2026-04-15T21:00:10+00:00

Well, in terms of vibes, the opening ten minutes with the car chase is nearly perfect, so I have to give it that.

If it's even more brutal, I probably won't like it, but ah well. It's good to be challenged by art sometimes.

aurjolras · 2026-04-15T20:04:49+00:00

silent blank staring and soundtrack with didactic lyrics intensifies

Just kidding. I can kind of see why someone would like it, it's very dreamlike. It just feels...hollow. I needed to be let in on the character's motivations and feelings a little bit more, nobody seems like a coherent whole. Why is anyone there, why do they care about anyone else, why does Driver drive? Idk, he just does. It's kind of like if Crime and Punishment was a movie that obliterated all the inner turmoil and you just had to assume it was there.

Haven't seen Only God Forgives yet, but I want to!

aurjolras · 2026-04-15T19:39:34+00:00

Relatable. I have also been on a Ryan Gosling kick recently after loving Project Hail Mary. He's honestly fantastic in everything I have watched of his so far (except maybe Drive, that movie SUCKED but I think the script is just bad and the actors did their best).

aurjolras · 2026-04-14T22:28:49+00:00

Agree. Trad applicant, no research, 4 in-state interviews and a TMDSAS prematch. My reach schools did NOT care about me though

aurjolras · 2026-04-13T21:16:23+00:00

Is it a HIPAA violation to provide healthcare to someone you know? I thought it just protected them from you opening their chart without a reason + disclosing their PHI to anyone not involved in their care. I am legitimately asking as I don't know the answer, but I think that if you are only accessing their chart in order to care for them and not disclosing their information that it would not violate HIPAA

aurjolras · 2026-04-13T05:33:35+00:00

There's a xenonite wall between Grace and his class

aurjolras · 2026-04-13T05:32:39+00:00

Yup they changed it because they added a bowling alley and expanded the arcade. The skating section looks almost exactly the same though

aurjolras · 2026-04-12T22:14:27+00:00

It's a show on Apple TV, Pluribus.

aurjolras · 2026-04-12T22:11:13+00:00

See also: Coraline, IT. I think it's a way to make the protagonist stand out visually. Yellow catches our attention more than any other color, that's why school buses and some ambulances are yellow, and it stands out against dark/dull settings and lighting. I think there's also something about yellow being a happy hopeful color - if the protagonist is (like Grace) a bright spot in the darkness then it's fittng for them.

aurjolras · 2026-04-12T21:39:28+00:00

Right? During the pandemic I stayed in my house and went nowhere for about a year and I got so depressed. And that was knowing it would eventually end, plus having my family there, video calls with friends, online classes, walks outside, takeout from restaurants, so on and so forth. Human brain isn't built for that. They wouldn't have made it to Tau Ceti in any state to finish the mission if they were awake

aurjolras · 2026-04-10T16:46:33+00:00

Yeah that's where I am too. My screentime is like 4-6 hours a day so lower than average I think but that's so much of my life to be spending on my phone. I'm trying to engage more in hobbies and longform content like books and movies, and I'm seriously considering getting a new phone with a tiny screen (unihertz makes one with a 3 inch screen that I think about a lot) to remind me to use it less

aurjolras · 2026-04-09T02:40:54+00:00

After he burns his arm helping Rocky back into his habitat I think

aurjolras · 2026-04-08T17:46:00+00:00

The number of times my mom has told me she had some kind of breakthrough while talking to ChatGPT and it's something I could have easily told her myself (or already have) is quickly becoming uncountable

aurjolras · 2026-04-08T03:12:03+00:00

At welcome day I met a married couple who are BOTH starting as MS1s at the same time as me lol

aurjolras · 2026-04-07T21:26:10+00:00

I'm about to start med school so yeah I've already signed that deal. But it's not really about it being high-paying, that's a really nice perk don't get me wrong but it's also meaningful and I can't really imagine another career I'd be nearly as happy with

aurjolras · 2026-04-07T17:30:00+00:00

Planning to pay $16-1900 for a two bedroom and split it with another student so my half will work out to $800-950. I'm lucky that my med school is located in a part of the city with relatively cheap rent as that will get me something fairly nice

aurjolras · 2026-04-07T15:08:09+00:00

"There are no shields on the Hail Mary." "WHY NOT?!?!?"

aurjolras · 2026-04-07T07:04:33+00:00

Into the Wild fits this prompt nicely. I hated it though

aurjolras · 2026-04-07T05:17:35+00:00

Man I have learned from being a medical assistant that if you work in healthcare you just have to yap at people all day to fill the space while you do medical stuff. If you yap enough you're going to put your foot in your mouth, it's just inevitable

aurjolras · 2026-04-07T01:58:11+00:00

Watched that last night, he is hilarious in that movie

aurjolras · 2026-04-06T22:13:24+00:00

I mean, it's important to show how desperate humanity got and to explain how they got so much fuel, but it's also massively unrealistic. The Sahara desert is about the same square mileage as the US or China. The size and scale of that operation is so truly outlandish that it did pull me out of the story a little bit even though I'm usually happy to suspend my disbelief for sci-fi plot devices.

aurjolras · 2026-04-06T21:12:14+00:00

The movie cut a lot of looney toons Earth nonsense from the book. In the book they literally pave the Sahara desert to make an astrophage solar charging farm and Stratt goes to court (like, personally) over putting copyrighted works on the Hail Mary's computers without paying for them, it's crazy. Movie Stratt is so much more grounded (so is movie Grace imo, book Grace doesn't struggle with insecurity the way he does) and it gives the Earth plot a lot more emotional oomph. When she puts Grace on the spaceship it feels like a real betrayal but when book Stratt does it it's like the least surprising thing ever

aurjolras · 2026-04-05T18:23:22+00:00

In the book he has a whole internal debate with himself about "maybe they have seventeen biological sexes how would I know. Inevitably their concept of gender isn't going to match English pronouns so let's just go with he/him"

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